{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c1c9b03f3428a439d71b8a55","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c1c9b03f3428a439d71b8a55","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c1c9b03f3428a439d71b8a55","title":"Electrical Design Engineer","description":"Electrical Design Engineer\n\nAbout PulseForge\n\nAt PulseForge, we’re expanding the boundaries of advanced manufacturing through pulsed-light technology. As an Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll design the hardware behind our systems from power delivery and precision instrumentation to controls and system integration. You’ll work and collaborate across electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to take new products from concept through customer deployment.\n\nThe Team\n\nYou’ll join a growing electrical engineering team at the heart of every sub-system developed, tested, supported, and shipped at PulseForge.\n\nEvery board that ships in a PulseForge system comes from this group. That means you'll see your work go from concept to production and hear directly how it performs in the field. There is very little distance between the engineer who designed the hardware and the outcome.\n\nYou’ll be working on and developing differing systems ranging from instrumentation, mixed-signal electronics, power systems, control and safety systems.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop schematics, select components, and evaluate design tradeoffs on hardware you own from concept through release\nSystem specifications and requirement gathering and definition\nPlan and develop PCB layouts following best practices for signal integrity, thermal performance, noise immunity, and EMI mitigation\nBring up, debug, characterize, and validate new designs at the bench\nDesign and execute test plans, fixtures, and experiments, and use data, simulations, and measurements to guide design decisions\nCollaborate with software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to develop solutions that work not only on the bench, but in production and at customer sites\nHelp with sustaining work and product improvements across our installed base.\nB.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent\n2+ years of experience designing, building, and testing electronic hardware\nExperience developing original circuits and making design decisions from first principles, rather than only modifying existing designs.\nSubstantial research, competition, hobby, or personal project experience may count toward this requirement when it demonstrates meaningful design, build, test, and debugging work\nStrong fundamentals and comfort working at the boundaries between analog, digital, and power.\nComfortable at the bench with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and common lab equipment\nStrong debugging and troubleshooting skills\nHigh-voltage power electronics and high-energy power delivery\nOptical instrumentation and precision sensing\nEmbedded control hardware and data acquisition\nComputing modules, firmware, and FPGA-based systems\nHigh-speed measurement and diagnostics\nSafety-critical industrial equipment\nStrong Analog Design experience\nFirmware or FPGA development, and comfort working across hardware and software during integration and debugging\nPower supply or mixed-signal circuit design\nExperience working on systems subject to harsh environments and demanding specifications\nYou've designed something that was built and tested\nYou enjoy working at the bench and using measurements to resolve technical questions and guide decisions\nYou improve systems you inherit instead of simply documenting their flaws\nYou're comfortable with ambiguity and can make progress without every requirement being fully defined\nYou want to grow toward greater technical ownership, including leading subsystem designs and making well-supported design decisions\nAustin, Texas (On-Site)\nTravel less than 5%\n$100,000-$140,000 annual salary\nBasic Qualifications\nTechnologies You’ll Encounter\n\nYou’ll work in Altium, LTspice, PSIM, and Vivado, and in a lab with scopes, DMMs, signal generators, bolometers, and soldering and rework stations.\n\nYou do not need experience in every area above. We are looking for engineers with strong fundamentals, hands-on experience, curiosity, and a willingness to learn.\n\nBonus Qualifications\nWhat We’re Looking For\nHow You’ll Grow\n\nWithin your first six months, you’ll support released products and own defined portions of active development programs. Within your first year, we expect you to be originating circuits and carrying complete subsystems from concept through release. We’re making this hire with the expectation that the role will grow into significant technical ownership over time.\n\nLocation & Compensation\n\nPulseForge is building advanced manufacturing technology that is redefining what and how materials can be processed and how products are made. If you are passionate about building hardware, solving difficult engineering problems, and seeing your work deployed in real-world systems, we would love to hear from you.\n\nSalary Range: $95k- $130k annual; salary is commensurate on experience.","company":"Pulse Forge","rawCompany":"pulse forge","city":"Austin","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-06T14:00:18.250Z","occupations":[{"code":"17-2072.00","title":"Electronics Engineers, Except Computer","slug":"electronics-engineers-except-computer"},{"code":"17-2071.00","title":"Electrical Engineers","slug":"electrical-engineers"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"334519","title":"Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing","slug":"other-measuring-and-controlling-device-manufacturing"},{"code":"334513","title":"Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables","slug":"instruments-and-related-products-manufacturing-for-measuring-displaying-and-controlling-industrial-process-variables"},{"code":"334511","title":"Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing","slug":"search-detection-navigation-guidance-aeronautical-and-nautical-system-and-instrument-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Electrical Design Engineer","description":"Electrical Design Engineer\n\nAbout PulseForge\n\nAt PulseForge, we’re expanding the boundaries of advanced manufacturing through pulsed-light technology. As an Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll design the hardware behind our systems from power delivery and precision instrumentation to controls and system integration. You’ll work and collaborate across electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to take new products from concept through customer deployment.\n\nThe Team\n\nYou’ll join a growing electrical engineering team at the heart of every sub-system developed, tested, supported, and shipped at PulseForge.\n\nEvery board that ships in a PulseForge system comes from this group. That means you'll see your work go from concept to production and hear directly how it performs in the field. 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We are looking for engineers with strong fundamentals, hands-on experience, curiosity, and a willingness to learn.\n\nBonus Qualifications\nWhat We’re Looking For\nHow You’ll Grow\n\nWithin your first six months, you’ll support released products and own defined portions of active development programs. Within your first year, we expect you to be originating circuits and carrying complete subsystems from concept through release. We’re making this hire with the expectation that the role will grow into significant technical ownership over time.\n\nLocation & Compensation\n\nPulseForge is building advanced manufacturing technology that is redefining what and how materials can be processed and how products are made. 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